The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-12-10
ALL OVER THE STATE.
Gleanings from our Maryland Exchang,


w. N. Cathcart has been appointed post
master at Madonna, Hartford county.
Mr.. G.. e. N. Ewing, of Beair, has gone to
Washington to engage in the grocery business.
There are 455 colored teachers in the public
schools of this State-20S males and 237 females.
tered hog few days ago that weighed 5t2 Tbs.
The barn of David v. St. Clair, near the
Rocks of Deer Creek, was burned few nights
ago.
"A drought prevails in some sections of Fred
erick county and the springs and streams are rap
idly failing.
Mr.. John Richie, son of the late Chief Judge
John Richie, of Frederick, has gone to Washing
ton to accept position.
George Doxop, of Hartford, has been ap-
pointed to q position in the Supervising Archi-
tect's office, Washington.
There are ifty-nine indictments pending
against persons in Hartford county for violat-
ing the local option law.
Governor elect Jackson will be inaugurated
Wednesday, January 18th, one week after the as
sembling of the Legislature.
1t is said that e. W. lie Compile, Esq, the
present Secretary of the State, will hold the same
position under Gov. Jackson.
"A man in Hartford county lately caughta
opossum that weighed II lbs. It was the largeIt
animal of the kind he ever saw.
The State House at Annapolis is being rapidly
put in condition for the meeting of the Legisls-
ture on Wednesday, January 4th.
John e. Reynolds, a respected citizen If
Hagerstown, committed suicide a few days ago BY
shooting himself through the head.
Senator German is being named in soma
quarters for the presidency of the B. 0. r. Z.
Co., but won't get there just the same.
The salary of the president of the B. go.
railroad will be fixed at $4,000 per year, and Mr.
Samuel Spencer will be elected to that office.
Wild geese and swan are more numerous on
the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries than for
several years before, and many are being killed.
DIR. J. H. Matthews, of Baltimore, has OBJ
tanned verdict against Carroll county for $3.50
for personal injuries received while driving over
defective bridge.
Miss Fanny Roatzahn, of Cavetown, Wash
ington county, who sued the Western Maryland
Railroad for injuries sustained in getting q
train, received $500 damages.
In all the members re. elected to the House of
Delegates, there is not one eminently qualified for
the position of Speaker. The lesson, if there be
one, is that the loveliest are the left-CecH Dem
0crdt.
Mr.. Charles Sanner, of Frederick county, has
a porlifc herd of COWS. Lately two of them drop
ped twin calves, the first pair weighing So and
90 pounds, respectively, and the others 20 and IS
pounds.
The farm of the late George Stockman, of
Philadelphia, situated at Perryman's, Hartford
county, and containing $50 acres, was lately sold
to Messrs. W. F. Cronin and Edmund Mitchell for
1900.
Mrs. Belva LOCKWOOD, the noted female law
yer of Washington, lectured at Rising Sun, Cecil
county, few nights ago on "Social and Political
life in Washington" She made number of
complimentary illusions to Mrs. Cleveland.
in Baltimore county, the home Of Baldwin,
the Prohibition candidate for Governor, and of
Brother William Daniel, the Prohibition vote at
the late election was but 594, as against 813 the
year previous. A pretty bad showing that
Liberty Frederick Co.. Banner.
John Sewers, of Elkton, better known as
"Baldy" Sewers, is lying at the point of DEATH
reputation as pugilist. He was the second of
Yankee Sullivan in his great fight with Tom
Hyer which took place at Still Pond, Kent county,
in 1851.
-Thos. G. Wingate was tried in the Circuit
Court of Charles county last week for the murder
of John Coombs, colored. He was convicted of
murder in the second degree and sentenced to
term of II years and months in the penitentiary.
Wingate was private in Capt. Dement'S Con-
federate Artillery.
The respectable colored men of Frederick
city held meeting and Indignantly denied that
they were in any way connected with the alleged
attempt to lynch the sheriff of the county in re-
taliation for the lynching of Bigus. No such at
tempt was made, in fact, the whole thing having
been the creation of the brain of some excitable
person.
w. s. Green, a merchant of Millington, Kent
county, and lad, Is years old, named VIM. Bot
tomley, quarreled about small debt due from
the latter Green struck Bottomley, who knocked
the other down and caught him by the throat,
causing repture of the arteries at the point of
wound received Is years ago in o bar-room fracas
Green bed to death.
Mrs. Margaret Mscatee, widow of the late
Ignatius Macatee who resides with her son, Mr..
Frank B. Macatee near Pylesville, Hartford county,
was given surprise party few days ago in
oommemoration Of her s1st birthday. A large
number of friends were present to pay their res
poets. Mrs. Macatee has family Of eight sons
and two daughters, most of whom reside in other
states.